How to make a PHP user profile

Learn how to create a PHP user profile with a step-by-step tutorial, complete with an example.

Creating a PHP User Profile

Creating a user profile in PHP is a relatively simple process. To create a basic user profile, you need to create a database table to store the user information and a form to enter the user data. Once the user data is stored in the database, you can retrieve and display it on the user profile page. Here is an example of how to create a basic user profile with PHP.

The first step is to create a database table for the user profile. This table should contain columns for the user's name, email address, password, and any other information you would like to store for the user. For example, the following code creates a table called user_profile with the necessary columns to store user information:

CREATE TABLE user_profile ( 
	name VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, 
	email VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, 
	password VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
	...
);

Once the table is created, you can create a form to enter the user information. This form should contain fields for the user's name, email address, and password. The following HTML code creates a basic form to enter the user information:

<form action="process_user.php" method="post">
	<label>Name:</label>
	<input type="text" name="name" />
	
	<label>Email address:</label>
	<input type="text" name="email" />
	
	<label>Password:</label>
	<input type="password" name="password" />
	
	<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

The form should submit the user data to a PHP script, which will store the data in the database table. The following PHP code processes the form data and stores it in the user_profile table:

$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$password = $_POST['password'];

$sql = "INSERT INTO user_profile (name, email, password) 
		VALUES ('$name', '$email', '$password')";
mysqli_query($conn, $sql);

Once the user information is stored in the database, you can retrieve and display it on the user profile page. The following PHP code retrieves the user information from the database and displays it on the page:

$sql = "SELECT * FROM user_profile WHERE email = '$email'";
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);
if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) {
	$row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);
	$name = $row['name'];
	$email = $row['email'];
	$password = $row['password'];
	
	echo "<h2>User Profile</h2>";
	echo "Name: $name<br />";
	echo "Email address: $email<br />";
	echo "Password: $password<br />";
}

That's all you need to do to create a basic user profile with PHP. With a few lines of code, you can create a system to store and display user information in a database.